Description of an open project "University for Future" from the expert-analytical portal "Siberian Frontier"

1. Open project
«University for Future»
Valery S. Efimov,
Center for Strategic Research and Development,
Siberian Federal University
foresight.sfu-kras.ru
October 15-17, 2015. Krasnoyarsk - Moscow
The 6th International Conference
Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers
" Rethinking Students: Ideas and New Research Approaches"

2. Center for Strategic Research and Development
(CSRD) foresight.sfu-kras.ru
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1. Practices of working with a future
• technological and regional foresight
• sociocultural foresight
• business areas and industries foresight
2. Strategizing
• development of strategies and programs
• applied urban studies
• organizational development
3. Organizational-activity engineering
• expert sessions
• project and strategic workshops
• simulation and facilitation
Main projects
1. Krasnoyarsk - 2030: new strategic vector
2. The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic Foresight - 2050
3. Proposals for the development strategy of Siberia
and Far East
4. Industrial policy for Siberia and Krasnoyarsk region
5. The modernization program of the Krasnoyarsk
region professional education
6. Krasnoyarsk Foresight: images of the future 2030
7. The future of higher education in Russia – 2030
8. Foresight of the Krasnoyarsk region education
system – 2030
9. The human capital of the Krasnoyarsk region – 2030

3. Project context: communicative revolutions
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The structure of intellectual activity
• Problem-search communication
• Structuring and accumulation of knowledge
• Production of knowledge
• Subject activity
1st communicative revolution – Appearance of writing, schemes, drawings,
2nd communicative revolution (1440-1810) – Invention and mass distribution of
book printing - new opportunities for knowledge storage and transmission
3rd communicative revolution (1980-2010) – Digital-communicative revolution -
transition to recording, storage and transmission of digital information (text, audio,
images, video)
Technology spreading 1990 2002 2010
The proportion of mobile
phone users
0,25% 19% 67%
The proportion of
Internet users
0,05% 11% 26,6%

4. New features of intellectual activity
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The organizational-activity
scheme (G.Schedrovitsky):
• Level of thinking
• Level of cogitative
communication
• Level of cogitative action
Basic intellectual functions:
• intellection,
• communication,
• cogitative action,
• reflexion,
• understanding
1. Increased access to knowledge – open digital libraries
2. Acceleration of knowledge flow – Internet use
3. New possibilities of online communication – Skype and etc.
4. Intelligence network communities – network communities of researchers and developers
5. Methodology of intellectual activity – from ontological models to organizational-activity
schemes and cognitive institutions
The speed of information
exchange
Time
Publication of article in the scientific
journal
6-24 months
Publication of article in the scientific
online edition
1-7 days
Organization of scientific seminar /
conference
1-8 months
Organisation of the webinar (Internet
communications)
1-5 days

5. Expert-analytical portal "Siberian frontier"
The portal is conceived as
cognitive institution of a new
generation, which provides
organization of collective thinking
and action in the context of the
digital revolution, intelligent
systems globalization prospects
Goals
• The formation of the expert community
(cognitive network) through the involvement
of experts in the discussion of socio-
economic, technological and cultural
development in the offline and online mode
• Providing user navigation in the space of
meanings, ideas, processes and trends,
design of their social and professional
position
• Promotion in public spaces of Russian
intellectual leadership groups, leading
scientific and educational organizations
http://sibfrontier.ru/

6. Open project "Universities for future"
OPEN PROJECT –
the new format of research and
expert-analytical work
organization (virtual think tank)
Objectives of open project
• Formation of the community of
researchers, practitioners and
experts
• Accumulation of texts – most
substantial scientific papers
• Organization of discourse –
deployment of scientific and
expert discussions
• Problems and tasks mapping
as a tool for researches and
development coordination
Main sections of the project
Project concept Project team Project experts Project participants
Project events Expert discourse Map of problems and tasks Project results
Project library

7. Open project "Universities for future"
OPEN PROJECT –
the new format of research
and expert-analytical work
organization (virtual think tank)
Objectives of open project
• Formation of the community of
researchers, practitioners and
experts
• Accumulation of texts – most
substantial scientific papers
• Organization of discourse –
deployment of scientific and
expert discussions
• Problems and tasks mapping
as a tool for researches and
development coordination
Library typical and thematic categories
Conceptual texts Researches and
analytics
Expert texts Official documents
Global and
country trends
Cognitive
anthropology
Institutional
development
Humanitarian and
digital technologies
Institutional
development
Humanitarian and digital
technologies
New Human - Cognitive
Anthropology
Global and country
trends
Research and
development
Knowledge
broadcasting
Interaction with
society

8. Project concept-group
OBJECTIVES OF CONCEPT
GROUP :
• definition of project goals and
objectives
• publication of author materials
on the project site
• definition of the expert
discussions’ subject and
content
• participation in the expert
discourse about key issues of
the project
• participate in development of
problems and tasks map

9. Project experts
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EXPERTS:
• participate in defining project goals and
objectives;
• make proposals to problems and tasks
map;
• publish authoring materials on the project
site;
• express expert opinion about other project
participants materials;
• offer to concept-group other authors’
materials (available for free distribution) for
project library
• participate in expert discussions about
project key issues, also as a moderator
• receive weekly newsletter.

10. Expert discourse
Communication design:
• problematic of topic
• effect of presence
• “density" of the text
• virtual dialogue
• open entrance
Presentation of text :
• title (main idea)
• basic theses
• detailed text
Discussion “Mission of university: challenges of modernity”
• Jacques Le Goff - "Intellectuals in the Middle Ages“
• Ronald Barnett - "Understanding the University“
• Jose Ortega y Gasset - "The mission of the University“
• Alexander Auzan - "The mission of the University: economist opinion“
• Jaroslav Kuz'minov - "Higher School of Economics: mission and mechanisms for its implementation"

11. Expert discourse
Possible topics of discourse:
• Mission of university: challenges of modernity
• University and the digital revolution
• Ethos of the university: Past, Present, Future
• University as a social institution. What activity
institutionalizes by university?
• University of the Future: a cognitive perspective
• New anthropological trends and University
• ???
Past
Future
Research and
development
Knowledge
broadcasting
Interaction with
society

12. Expert statement

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Administering communications

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Valery S. Efimov
Center for Strategic Research and Development,
Siberian Federal University
Contacts:
Website CSRD – foresight.sfu-kras.ru
Website "Siberian frontier" – sibfrontier.ru
Tel. +7(391)2912731